Therapy helps discover inner child
By Heather Heinisch
Staff Reporter
Carol Arm Bedient considers
herself more than just a therapist;
she is a healer and teacher of the
inner child.
Bedient, co-founder of the
Center for Well-Being at 4630
Antelope Creek Road, said her
philosophy is that the problems
adults face are unresolved issues
of childhood, when they didn't
feel lovable.
"I help people feel safe enough
to look inside and see what's good,
strong, and lovable and to lift away
layers of fear about themselves,"
she said.
Bedient said she is not like other
therapists because of how she does
her work, by reading her client's
energy.
I don't think of it as reading the
aura, she said. I just know things,
through non-verbal body language
and an intuitive hunch.
"I've learned to trust it because
it has been validated time and time
again," she said.
Intuitive work is not unusual,
Bedient said, a lot of people can do
it if they just trust themselves.
She said one common example
of intuition is w’hen the phone rings
and someone knows who is call
ing before picking it up.
When I'm working with a client
1 couldn't turn off my intuition if 1
wanted to, Bedient said.
Outside of the office, however,
she said she doesn't try to see how
others are feeling. That's intru
sive, she said.
Bedient said with therapy she
helps her clients solve their prob
lems on all levels: mental, physi
cal, emotional and spiritual.
She said that just talking about
problems, like most therapies, does
not get at the root.
Emotional problems are not in
the men tal, thi nki ng level she said.
To solve an emotional problem,
you have to work through your
emotions.
Adults have problems not be
cause they are sick, she said, but
because tne way they solve them
is not working.
All the experiences in a per
son's life are important, she said,
especially the first five or six years.
That is a very traumatic time for a.
child because their intellectual
capacity is not developed yet and
they make illogical assumptions,
she said.
If a child gets lost in a depart
ment store, Bedient said, it is very
traumatic. When the child is found
by his parents, they say "you're
safe." Maybe that child has de
cided in order to be "safe" he has
‘ s be with someone, Bedi
I help my clients pinpoint the
times tney didn't feel safe and
secure, she said.
When a person feels worthi
ness and lovable, she said their
esteem changes, and the risks they
take are bigger.
"They know they are lovable
whether or not they fail," Bedient
said.
1 teach people to love them
selves, she saia.
Her clients come from all sta
tions in life, she said. It is rare to
have a client who has never been
to a therapist, Bedient said.
Either they weren't satisfied or
have decided what they want to
work on. They don't want a thera
pist to give them the answers, but
rather work it out themselves, she
said.
The therapy I do is very em
powering, she said, my clients get
the ability to know themselves.
Bedient got her undergraduate
degree in human development and
social work at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln and completed
advanced Hakomi training at the
Hakomi Institute in Boulaer, Co.
She also attended Washington
University in St. Louis, Mo. with
graduate work in social work.
Hakomi training is body-mind
therapy, she said. It teaches people
to track their emotions, and to feel
safe. A lot of those principles come
out in my work, sne said.
The intuitive portion is her own,
she said.
"I went a non-traditional way
based on my own experiences ana
interests," she said.
Bedient holds both individual
therapy and workshops. One
workshop concentrates on train
ing other therapists how to do this
kind of treatment.
She said a therapist doesn't have
to work as hard with her methods,
because they don't have to supply
all the answers. The client finds
his or her own answers, Bedient
said.
Bedient is holding a one-day
workshop, Healing the Inner Child,
Saturday March, 2 at the Center
for Well-Being.
She said tne workshop helps
people re-parent themselves. I help
identify what's good about child
hood. It is a time for self-discov
ery, Bedient said, not just to bring
up problems but to see ourselves
in new ways.
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